Bert MITCHELL
| Unit |
1/8th Bn, The Worcestershire Regiment, 144th Brigade, 48th Division, T.F., B.E.F. |
| Service Number | 4213 |
| Rank | Private |
| Nature of Death | Killed in action Serre, Somme, France 6/3/16 |
| Age | - |
| Burial/Commemoration | Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France: I F 54 |
| Malvern Commemoration | Malvern Library Memorial |
| Next of Kin | - |
| Education | - |
| Previous Employment | - |
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Bert Mitchell, who was well known in Malvern was killed while on sentry duty in a front line position opposite Serre by a gun shot wound to the head. The regimental history describes these trenches as "deep, gloomy [and] infested with rats."
He joined the 8th Worcesters at Worcester on Easter Tuesday 1915, was with the 3rd Line unit at Malvern until he left for the front line on the 2nd February 1916. His parents lived at Worcester.
Malvern News
18/3/16
Stacke, Capt H FitzM The Worcesteshire Regiment in the Great War Kidderminster
1921
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